I love to use this as a frosting or filling in strawberry, chocolate, and spice cakes (just to name a few!). It’s softer than most buttercreams and so when using it for an outer frosting, you may find that you need to thicken it a bit by either combining with vanilla buttercream, or simply adding additional powdered sugar. In the photo above, the cream cheese frosting was not altered, and was piped with a wilton 2D tip. (Strawberry cake!)
Enjoy the recipe!
1 8oz package cream cheese, ( 226 grams) Use cold from the refrigerator, cut into pieces
1 stick butter, slightly softened – 113 grams
4 cups confectioner’s sugar, 460 grams
1 teaspoon vanilla, 4 grams
Mix the butter, cream cheese and vanilla at medium speed. Add confectioner’s sugar. Blend until smooth. Sometimes the consistency varies a little with the weather…add a little more sugar if you need to.
Double Batch-
Two 8 oz packages cream cheese (452 grams) Use cold from the refrigerator, just into pieces
1 1/2 sticks butter slightly softened (169 grams)
8c. confectioner’s sugar (920 grams)
2 tsp vanilla ( 8 grams)
Blend as above
This frosting should be refrigerated.
Hi Melissa! Can I use meringue powder and how much to stabilize this recipe. Maybe you may have another option, or is it necessary to include a stabilizer?
Hi Joan, I do not use meringue powder in the recipe, but it would be fine to do so if you would like a bit firmer frosting. I would use 2 teaspoons meringue powder per 8 ounces of cream cheese.
Do you use a double batch or a single batch for your carrot cake?
Hi Teena, For the 3 layer carrot cake with the piping I doubled the recipe.